Bios of Eggenberger, Christian (b.1869) and Henry (b.1864) Wabasha Co., MN
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Eggenberger, Christian and Henry (page 610), are well known business men
of Theilman, where they are successfully operating a sawmill and are also
carrying on other industries. Henry was born near Toronto, Canada, July
30, 1864, and Christian in West Albany Township, Wabasha County, minn.,
June 12, 1869. Their parents, Christian and Anna Elizabeth Eggenberger,
were born and married in Switzerland, and came to the United States in
1854 on a sailing vessel, being three months on the ocean. Locating first
in Buffalo, N. Y., they subsequently went to Canada, and in 1865 came to
Wabasha County, Minnesota, taking 160 acres of wild land in West Albany
Township, which they developed into a farm with good buildings. In the
early seventies the father sold the farm and bought one in Glasgow
Township, near Theilman village, and besides carrying on agriculture
operated a sawmill. Industrious and enterprising, he was also successful
in a high degree, and he and his wife were highly respected. They were
members and liberal supporters of the German Reformed church in Theilman
village. The father died May 2, 1902, and the mother January 25, 1910. Of
their family of ten children, three were born in Switzerland, namely:
Elizabeth, now Mrs. Bernard Korthour of Buffalo Gap, Custer County, S. D.;
Emil, deceased; and Emma, who died on board ship wile crossing the ocean.
The children born in this country were as follows: John, a prosperous
farmer and sawmill operator in Alberta, Canada; Emma (second), now Mrs.
Leonard Seiger, of Buffalo Gap, S. D.; Rosanna, who married Dan Peterson,
of Portland, Ore., and is now deceased; Henry, of Theilman, Minn.; Amelia,
now Mrs. Frank Laqua, of Alberta, Canada; Christian, of Theilman, and
Louise, wife of August Schleicher, a hardware dealer of Millville, Wabasha
County, Minn. The two sons Henry and Christian were formerly associated
with their father in farming and in the mill, and in time succeeded to the
mill business. Besides operating the mills, they contract extensively for
cement work, barns, bridges and other miscellaneous work, and are also
successful apiarists. They are members and liberal supporters of the
German Reformed church at Theilman, and are politically aligned with the
Republican party. Henry Eggenberger was married in November, 1910, to
Hattie Krahn, who was born in Pennsylvania, February 25, 1868, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Krahn. Her father was pastor for some years of the
German Reformed church at Theilman, to which the subjects of this sketch
belong. The two brothers are enterprising business men, and are
successfully conducting an important industry, which is a factor in the
prosperity of the village in which they have made their home.